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| Author | Hot Topic | Date | Replies |
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J0E |
GWK 31 - Top Owned and Most Transferred In Players
GK 31 players with more than 10% overall ownership Basically if you don't own some of this lot you will want them to have a quiet day. Salah - 61% Firmino - 46% Hegazi - 21% - likely to be mainly… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 18 |
J0E |
Season Run In: Man Utd v Arsenal Players
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Season Run In: Man Utd v Arsenal Players A key issue those wildcarding/preparing for future doubles have encountered is Man Utd v Arsenal assets. Many … |
8 years, 7 months ago | 50 |
Prøfeßör … |
GW31 under the radar picks
Which players do you think are flying under the radar for this BGW? |
8 years, 7 months ago | 110 |
G-Whizz |
GW31 Odds/Stats
GW31 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week saw Manchester City (571DS) beat Stoke 2-0, Chelsea (517DS) beat Crystal Palace 2-1 and finally Arsenal who stole onto the radar with their D… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 17 |
CRO KLOPP |
Your Team's Selling Value
Getting closer to WC, how much is your SV? 103.5 here |
8 years, 7 months ago | 81 |
J0E |
Chelsea options for the season run in
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which Chelsea players will be in your team for the season run in and why? Are the likes of Hazard and Alonso overpriced? Or worth their high price tags? Ca… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 50 |
J0E |
Top season run in targets
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Whether wildcarding or not - who are your top transfer targets for Gameweek 32 onwards? This was discussed on last night's Scoutcast with Arsenal, Leiceste… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 41 |
JasonG123 |
Blank GWK 31: Is Butland worth a hit?
Looking at the expected value of Butland's score this week: - 2 expected points for playing. - 35% chance of a clean sheet based on betting odds and 4 points for a clean sheet, so 1.4 expected poi… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 123 |
J0E |
Gameweek 30 Rough with the Smooth
Gameweek 30 Rough with the Rough Feel free to leave your tales of woe and woe here. 😉 Also keen to hear from the handful of people who actually had a good Gameweek. |
8 years, 7 months ago | 125 |
J0E |
Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here
Live Scoutcast tonight at 9:30pm Feel free to leave your questions for us here. |
8 years, 7 months ago | 99 |
Az |
CONGRATULATIONS SPENCER
Just been alerted to the news that FFScout regular, admin and all-round good guy Spencer and his partner have just had a baby boy. Baby Oliver weights 7 lbs 6 and will be forever known as the BGW31… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 33 |
Lateriser 12 |
Season run in planning
Just went through the fixtures in details and here are some thoughts. Note that i have already used my TC. - United, Chelsea, Spurs and Lei are the main teams that should be on your wildcard. They… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 43 |
Deulofail |
Free Hit Rules
Free Hit: Make unlimited free transfers for a single Gameweek. At the next deadline your squad is returned to how it was at the start of the Gameweek The Free Hit chip can be used once a season, … |
8 years, 7 months ago | 34 |
J0E |
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 31
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 31 Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance of a prize. If you… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 6 |
J0E |
Blank Gameweek 31 Dream Team
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 31 Dream Team What would be your dream XI for Gameweek 31.....and please give reasons. This is especially applicable to those with a Free Hit c… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 50 |
J0E |
Gwk 30 lessons learned ...so far
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 30 - Lessons learned so far. Here’s a few to get the discussion started. Feel free to comment on these or suggest your own. Patience proves a… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 68 |
andy85wsm |
Time for Kanexit 3?
Is anyone taking out Kane for GW31? I fancy a punt on a striker and it also means if I keep my wildcard until GW33 I can take another punt on a different striker in GW32. Lukaku v Swansea (h) Aub… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 37 |
RedLightning |
New mini-league
I have created a new mini-league (Last 8 Game-Weeks, 757-1280283) which will start scoring in GW31. It should be interesting to see which chip strategy proves most effective over the final 8 game-… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 18 |
J0E |
Gwk 30 Captaincy
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? |
8 years, 7 months ago | 31 |
Niemi |
Eliteserien GW1 Community Scout Picks
Community Scout Picks GW1 Linde Kitolano - Teniste - Parr Ulland Andersen - Haugen - Koomson - Sigurdarson Bendtner - Lehne Olsen - Stokke Community Captain Ulland Andersen with 45% of the vot… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 2 |
@ocprodigy |
Scout Picks Challenge - GW30
SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 30 GW26 results:https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/17722196 I'm flat bound this weekend (somehow, even with the MMR vaccine, I've contracted MUMPS) so… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 30 |
J0E |
Gameweek 30's best differential
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 30's biggest differential? I actually think it could well be an Arsenal asset - who we are all avoiding due to GWK 31 fever and that B… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 84 |
G-Whizz |
GW30 Odds/Stats
GW30 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week Tottenham (579DS) beat Huddersfield at home 2-0, Liverpool (488DS) faced Newcastle at Anfield and beat them 2-0 and finally Manchester United… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 24 |
RedLightning |
Chips, BPS and other possible FPL changes
What FPL changes would we like to see for next season? I would suggest the following changes to chips and to BPS: Chips: Keep the Wildcards. Get rid of Bench Boost. Keep Free Hit but change its na… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 81 |
J0E |
Sky Blue Thinking
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Manchester City issues With tough fixtures and inevitable rotation due to Champions League commitments is it time to ditch Manchester City options. Or ar… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 48 |
SW6 |
BGWK 31 - Clean Sheet Odds
Some quick statistics for you, these are implied odd of these events occurring in GW31 according to betting sites: Liverpool CS: 55.6% Watford CS: 7.1% Huddersfield CS: 34.8% Palace CS: 34.8% B'… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 19 |
J0E |
FFS Cup cut off revealed
FFS Cup qualification latest Article and first round draw will be published tomorrow. But we can reveal now that the cut off from the qualification round was 60 points with a rank of 211070 or … |
8 years, 7 months ago | 63 |
J0E |
GWK 31 players worth taking a hit for
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which players is it worth using a Free Hit Chip on or taking a hit for in Gameweek 31? This follows on from Ragabolly's research into GWK 31 player ownershi… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 104 |
Twisted Saltergater |
The case for free hitting in Gwk 31
Have just watched the Scoutcast back and found myself shouting at the screen regarding the GW31 situation 🙂 A free hit in GW31 is almost a perfect storm, imo. - There are brilliant non-GW31 play… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 120 |
J0E |
Gameweek 29 Rough with the Smooth
Gameweek 29 Rough with the Smooth Let us know about your Gameweek highs and lows here. Remember it's what you did do, not what you didn't. |
8 years, 7 months ago | 73 |
J0E |
Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Live Scoutcast tonight - feel free to leave your questions for the team here 9:30pm start |
8 years, 7 months ago | 119 |
tafrère |
Why is GWK 35 better for the free hit chip?
Why is GW35 a better gameweek to use FH ? |
8 years, 7 months ago | 51 |
Individual |
Tosun & Aubameyang's surprise bonus awards explained
Hi all Inspired a bit by the questions I've seen over the weekend on BPS I carried on from where I left off on our most recent podcast and looked into how two of the biggest sore points of this we… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 50 |
J0E |
Community Writer of the month vote – February
Community Writer of the month vote – February It’s that time again to vote for your favourite community writer of the past month. All you have to do is email us here community@fantasyfootba… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 7 |
J0E |
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 30
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 30 Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance of a prize. If you… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 0 |
Numb |
Chips Strategy and the Great Gameweek 31 Trap
CHIPS STRATEGY - HAVE WE ALL* GOT IT WRONG? So, I know that the "received wisdom" on here has been to plan for GW31 without FH with a view to using FH in 35. But, as a useful comparison, my ML lea… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 71 |
J0E |
Gameweek 30 Captaincy - Kane v the rest
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic At last Salah has a worst fixture than others. Suddenly the armband is up for grabs. What are your early thoughts on the captaincy? Is Kane the obvious ch… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 43 |
Ragabolly |
Ownership of Gwk 31 players
I calculated something that might be useful while planning the coming GWs: The average number of GW31 players in current top teams is: Top 1k: 5.96 Top 10k: 5.7781 Top 100k: 5.52487 Note that this… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 28 |
Toby Lerone |
What to do with Wilson?
Wilson owners, what is the plan? I'm struggling |
8 years, 7 months ago | 25 |
J0E |
Gameweek 29 Lessons Learned So Far... | 8 years, 7 months ago | 69 |
J0E |
Gameweek 29 Captaincy
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? |
8 years, 7 months ago | 75 |
@ocprodigy |
Scout Picks Challenge - GW29
SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 29 Catching up! Up to GW26, GW27 and 28 this weekend thanks... ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every evening … |
8 years, 7 months ago | 32 |
G-Whizz |
Doosra's Gameweek 29 Stats
GW29 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week Liverpool (449DS) beat West Ham at Anfield 4-1 and Leicester (354DS) disappointed with a 1-1 draw at home with Stoke. Spurs (330DS) beat Crys… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 31 |
J0E |
Gameweek 29's best differential
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 29's best differential and why? |
8 years, 7 months ago | 52 |
Flynny |
Sterling: sell or keep?
What r sterling owners doing? No guarantee he starts at weekend....pep doesn't need to rush him.... Think I'm going to replace with eriksen .... |
8 years, 7 months ago | 35 |
Maximus Bonimus Pointimus |
Is FPL getting boring?
Anyone else getting... whisper it quietly.... bored of FPL? First time i can remember where I'm genuinely not fussed about the run in. 10 GW's, we know about BGW31, and a couple of DGW's. If you pl… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 69 |
Ludo |
How Spurs beat their Wembley blues
Tottenham may have won 6-1 against ‘only Rochdale’ last night, but I think it’s another indicator that their Wembley woes are now firmly in the past. They struggled there at the start of the … |
8 years, 7 months ago | 17 |
THFC4LIFE |
Thursday's Press Conferences
Today’s Presser’s 1.00pm Huddersfield 1.15pm Burnley 1.30pm Leicester Palace Stoke 2.00pm Watford Swansea |
8 years, 7 months ago | 6 |
J0E |
Snow Memories
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Snow memories Matches getting called off due to the weather have become increasingly rare. But when it happens it can be devastating to some FPL managers… |
8 years, 7 months ago | 27 |
nevertrustbony |
What skills are needed to do well at FPL?
Hey, I finished 37th a few years ago, so i've put it on my cv, I'm just wondering what skills people think it takes to do well at FPL? I'm currently applying for finance related internships. |
8 years, 7 months ago | 59 |

